I thought it would be good prank change semicolons to Greek question mark in my boss' code where his delivery date is today. I thought he will spend like at least few minutes figuring it out.

He ran make, immediately figured it out and even corrected with sed only. Then yawned and looked at me with a smirk. Now I am getting paranoid what he will do as revenge

I am Computer Science Student
Yesterday I asked question to my classmates, what is Linux,

here's some(non-forgettable) replays:

3- An App
2- A Soap
1- Game character

and most (suggest me..a word) :

0- Linux Crackers(Food)

and that guy sent me this..

When my question gets upvotes on Stack Overflow but none answers it

That moment that you can help a customer with a highly technical question for the first time because you read something a year or more ago about that.

That feels awesome!

When it's been 4seconds since you posted a question on Stack Overflow and no one has answered it yet.

A nerd often get to act support. I got this question about a year ago from a friend. (I've translated it into english.)

Interviewed a dev for a junior role earlier this week...my first question:

const numbers = [0.1, 0.2, 0.3];
let sum = 0;

for (i = 0; i < numbers.length; ++i) {
setTimeout(() => {
sum += numbers[i];
}, 0);
}

// Refactor the preceding code so that the following returns true.
console.log(sum === 0.6);

---
He had no idea where to even start, so I asked him to walk through the code with me line by line, he couldn't get past line 1 - literally didn't know what an array was... I walked through the code with him and he just started to look more and more lost.

I didn't even bother with the rest of my questions on OOP, FP, etc...

Am I really expecting too much of somebody that claims to have 2 years practical experience in JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, and PHP?

Do you think this is a problem a junior dev should be able to solve...even if it takes some hand-holding?

If a programmer creates scripts to complete his work for him, does that still technically mean he's doing his job?

Wtf is wrong with stackoverflow I asked a question I get it’s not easy to understand it to answer

But your instead trying to fix my grammar and punctuation! Wtf! It’s 100% readable

People on stackoverflow are obnoxious dicks

When someone asks me a stupid question,
I always answer:
You have the Knowledge of the Entire world and human race in your pocket,
FUCKING USE IT! DONT ASK ME! GOOGLE IT! BING IT! WHATEVER! JUST DONT ASK ME!

Ask a question on stack overflow , keep refreshing the page for few days to see the view count and hoping for an answer. Then after 4 days answer my own question #StoryOfMyLife

Okay, question;

Can I use ANY phone number in my game?

According to Wikipidia:
"Numbers between (555)-0100 & (555)-0199 are reserved for fictional use."
But.. I'm wanting to have a little phone pop up in my game that you can enter phone numbers into and text the corresponding player (and i hope to have more than 99 players) I would just have contact names, but I want players ti be able to dick around with other players.. Like, post their number to in-game telemarketers and such. What fo you think I should do?

I recently interviewed for a job at company where I had 20 minutes to code a solution in python (whose standard library I know nothing about) to a question, which also included googling certain finance-related APIs, with not one but two technical interviewers looking over my shoulder THE ENTIRE TIME.

Question?

Any disadvantage if I just take the window face off my computer and leave it off?

A question for @dfox (and anyone else who feels like awnsering)

How many of us do you recognize by our username?? Or how what usernames do you see enough that you could list them without checking devrant?

You obviously know @linuxxx and other people with that many ++

But do you know smaller people like me

Or even smaller people like @hyperlisk

Question, I use VirtualBox and PHPVirtualBox on multiple servers right now. Love it and it works great but I'm wondering if anyone knows any good alternatives?

Requirement is that it's open source :)

Questions about code has reduced greatly after I got a new laptop.

I have this one question..

So when I want to ask something or posting/ranting something, there are different categories.. I can differentiate between others vs a collab.. but what about questions, rants, about devrant, random, what are the differences between these categories apart from the specific category helping the algo to populate your newsfeed..

Anyone??

When you know what you need, but don't know how to do it and can't get your thoughts into words well enough to ask on stackoverflow.

The moment when you find exactly your problem on Stackoverflow...

...just to realize its the same question you read about a year ago when you already had the problem but since it was minor and there was no solution so you ignored it up until now.

Followed by the feeling when you see that there was not even a comment added the whole year besides it was viewed 150 times.

Followed by the feeling when you find the solution all by yourself and finally write an answer to the question.

Just to realize that this was the only question from this guy on SO and his last login was two years ago. :-~

Well at least the annoying log message is gone and I learned something new.

Question for networking persons or persons who might know more about this than me in general.

I'm looking at setting up a server as vpn server (that part I know) which tunnels everything through multiple other vpn connections.

So let's say I've got a vps which I connect to through vpn. I then want that vps to have one or multiple connections to other vpn servers.

That way i can connect my devices to this server which routes everything to/through other services like mullvad :).

Tried it before but ended up losing ssh access until reboot 😬

Anyone ideas?

Actual interview question...

Would you ever lie to a client?

Can you hate complex math and still be a backend developer? 🤔

Interview question:

"What are your three most favorite design patterns?"

Me: "Huh? They're tools in a toolbox. If I want to drive in nails I use a hammer or a nail gun. Do I need to cuddle with them? I don't pick favorites and I don't try to solve everything with just a bunch of patterns. And I've work with a bunch, right now I'm drawing a blank though as this question highly confuses me and would like to do a Google search listing a few names as the only one that's comming to my mind right now are the factory and builder pattern. And no, not necessarily favorites."

Do you think that a ".io" domain name is more attractive ?

it's really java so bad? it's JEE getting deprecated? i am just learning java and i'm afraid of learn something that's turning obsolete😢

How is devRant not 5 stars on the Play Store? Some people just don't appreciate art.

Everyone has been doing various " DevRant * reveals "

I wonder if anyone will start doing a name reveal.

When someone asks me what is programming, I usually say:

— That's something like assembling Lego, but you also get paid for it.

I often get this question:
"I have this old computer. Can you fix it?"

My brother is a helicopter pilot, and he will probably never get this question:
"I have this old helicopter, that is literally falling apart. Will you fly it for me?"

I just answered an old Question I asked on a forum and I don't know if I should be proud about my improvement or if I should feel dumb for accidentally answering my own question

Favourite coding font?

I switched from operator mono book to IBM Plex mono (text)

Hey, people's of devrant!

You guys seem to know a lot about this, so I'm going to ask this question here..

Can i have some recommendations for apps to use (Android) that respect privacy and are preferably enctypted?

Things I would like:

Google drive / Dropbox alternative

Image upload

A nice looking image viewer / gallery (I don't like the Samsung one)

An RSS feed reader.

Google docs alternative

Maybe a calendar / reminder app

I think that's it. Also feel free to mention other apps that you guys use on a regular basis

whats.the.most.sub.domains.youve.ever.seen.on.the.web.com

Hello! I'm new to devRant and so far I like it a lot, but I have a question. Can anyone tell me what does that "rubber duck" thing mean? Thanks.

devRant.post(new Rant(imageStream));

Would you hire your boss?

I am starting a series here on devrant. I'm going to ask a single question daily in the hopes of bettering my understanding how different people do certain tasks. I hope you will take the time to answer to give me a better perspective of what the industry standards are.

Question 1.

If you are starting a new project using mvc type of design.

What is first part you start coding? Do you:
1) create the route? All routes? Or a single route then go to the next step?
2) make the templates? Again, a single template? Or all the templates?
3) design the database?
4) create models to interact with database?
5) other

For me, I will

1) create the route
2) create the template (view)
3) code controller logic
4) add the database tables and data.
5) code the model and do the business logic.
6) repeat for each section I need to create.

Is this typical? Is there a better way?

My series in becoming a better developer.

A C++ question. Correct answer will get you a virtual thug glasses & a cigar if you're into that , and upvotes (:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {

int i = 4;

int* p = &i;

i = 8;

printf("i divided by *p is: %d\n", i/*p);

return 0;

}

What is the result of running this code?

No I don't hack Facebook accounts 😒... Why do people keep asking that?.

Okay.. Serious question.

I have a game. And a license that i have to provide a name for.

..I'm transgender, and have get to get a legal name change...

Do I /have/ to claim it under my birth name? (I don't own a company, so i assume the answer is yes.)

I just realized that I don't have a single language that I "master"
It's more like I use the language that is required, and then forget it.
I wonder, should I start focusing on mastering a single language or keep using what I need?

Also, how can a student get a job in it-security field?

I think there is such a thing as "getting too comfortable with the people you work with".

My boss came over and wanted to show me how to do a new process. We start going through the steps and a question arises. I then IM my team lead, because he's the one who would know the answer, and all I get back from him is sarcastic comments and profanity (he doesn't know my boss is sitting at my comp with me). So I keep trying to get him to be serious, and he just keeps his mouth (well, fingers) going. (He is remote - not in our bldg). I want so badly to shut him up because what if he says something about my boss while she is sitting there? Not that he does that, but at the pace he's going, it no longer would surprise me.

There should be some sort of code to hint to your team to STFU and give a fucking answer when one is needed. Sort of like what kids do to hint that a parent is in the room, but for work?

Why the fuck is this apple stuff so fucking expensive?
I want to dig into IOS app development but I am seriously considering not to do it because it's fucking expensive...

Backstory:
I am a young dev (in apprenticeship) and my company offered me a phone. That's great because I can save the money that I would have payed for my phone bill.
But sadly it's an iPhone... I thought why not make something cool out of it and start learning IOS development.

But so far all I saw from IOS development are extreme high costs...

Is there some kind of student plan or anything that makes it cheaper to learn?

Can you guys give me any advice on this?
I own an old MacBook but I need a new OS on it... (long story)
Are there anymore hidden costs? Any tips where to start?

Thanks for your help fellow ranters and sorry for the half rant half question

I have a question because the internet isn't helping me.

When I press and hold left alt + space + right alt, the computer beeps.

It's running Windows 8.1
And it's an hp Compaq.

Looking at the volume mixer, there is nothing showing that it is making noise so I assumed it was hardware but changing system volume changes the beep volume.

Are there rants with negative ++'s?

Legitimate question, no argument intended: why do you use mac? What advantages does it have over the other operating systems in terms of coding?

Why call it a HACKathon, when we bave to come up with ideas and develop somethig???

Who doesn't love emoji in their commit messages ;)

Why I don't use Stack Overflow 99% of the time:

Me: I'm not a ruby developer, but I have to write a small script in ruby. I ran into a problem where i'm getting behavior I don't expect. I have a method which expects an array, and when multiple items are passed into it from the command line parser, behaves appropriately, but when only one command line argument is passed, the method breaks because it was passed a single element, not an array of one element. Here's my code, how do I get my desired behavior?

Most highly voted answer: your problem is your passing it a single element and not an array

Question downvoted into oblivion. As if i'm a pleb for not immediately having a perfect grasp of dynamic typing because when I have the choice I stick with strong nominative typing.

What shell do you guys use?

I am currently messing around with zsh and am wondering what other nice ones people use

(I used to use bash and Korn shell)

What is your Favorite time to code ?

Question: Do you guys use your own laptop for development or the ones provided at your workplace.

I'm facing something really strange, in a coffee shop I go to usually, all downloads even if from terminal download speed is at best 200KB/s and at worst 50KB/s, but there is this game armored warfare, it reaches 2MB/s download speed on the same connection, while at home everything goes to max 200KB/s.

My question is, how do the devs at armored warfare do this? use max connection speed or are there any configs need to be changed so I can reach max speed in any downloading?

Spend months on a project, multiple rewrites and constant refactoring of code.

Three different repos, multiple branches each, all being maintained as best as I can.

A few days ago I dropped all the npm dependancies I could with no lost functionality, and megabytes of packages pruned.

Finally think it's in alpha stage, so I put it out there to promote (alpha as in not just a poorly written prototype, an actual working piece), and it's totally ignored. Went the extra mile to make it extra open source and other good things. Nothing.

What should I do? The license is GPL, should I switch to BSD? How can I promote this software, because I believe it could do great things (it's for science)

What are your hobbies besides of programming/dev related?

For example, i like to play disc golf.

how did people here learn programming? interested in hearing your journey from discovery of programming to now.

Are these anti-thief systems magnetic? In doubt I didn't bought it.

Question:

What password manager do you use and why?

Am I the only one having issues in getting the images displayed on rants?

It is a good idea to only use services that allow 2 factor authentication?

Interviewing for Senior Web Developer role, candidate: I have 16 years experience in JavaScript...
Don't know anything about addEventListener... FACEPALM

Question:
I am planning to learn machine learning and deep learning. I am quite comfortable programming in c++ and python, what would you recommend would be a nice starting point with more attention towards practical stuff.

If I write something erroneously on SO because the program or operating system uses it erroneously in the error, don't edit my fucking question to what you think it should be. People who Google for the same error aren't going to find it as a possible fucking solution. How fucking hard is this to understand?

Question:
Does Rubber Duck Debugging really help? Haven't tried it myself yet.

What feed order do you use? I personally like the most recent Rants 😊

Fellow Deviants, I need your help in understanding the importance of C++

Okay, I need to clarify a few things:

I am not a beginner or a newbie who has just entered this community...

I have been using C++ for some time and in fact, it was the language which introduced me to the world of programming... Before, I switched to Java, since I found it much better for application development...

I already know about the obvious arguments given in favour of C/C++ like how it is a much more faster and memory efficient than other languages...

But, at the same time, C/C++ exposes us and doesn't protect us from ourselves.. I hope that you understand what I mean to say..

And, I guess that it is a fair tradeoff for the kind of power and control that these languages (C/C++) provide us..

And, I also agree with the fact that it is an language that ideally suits our need, if we wish to deal with compilers, graphics, OS, etc, in the future...

But, what I really want to ask here is:

In this age and times, when hardware has advanced so much, where technically, memory efficiency or execution speeds no longer is the topmost priority... These were the reasons for which C/C++ was initially created...

In today's time, human concept of time matters more and hence, syntactical less complicated languages like Java or Python are much more preferred, especially for domains like application development or data sciences...

So, is continuing with C++, an endeavour worth sticking with in the future or is it not required...

I am talking about this issue since I am in a dilemma about the use of C++ in the future...

I would be grateful if we could talk about keeping AI, Machine Learning or Algorithms Optimisation in mind... Since, these are the fields in which I am interested in...

I know that my question could have been posted in a better way.. But, considering the chaos that is present in my mind, regarding this question doesn't allow me to do so...

Any kind of suggestion or thoughts would be welcome and much appreciated...

P.S: I currently use C++ only for competitive programming or challenges...

How many monitors does everyone have?

I have 3. 2 for my laptop and 1 for a desktop.

When someone asks me a tecnical question in something i'm interested in:
"It works like this ... Oh i also should explain you how processors work ... Anyway, when a bufferoverflow arises ... And thats how crypthography works ... and so does blockchain work ... anf thats why bitcoin is causing way too many stress on the power grid."

What is the one thing newbies do that you just can't stand? Why?

Hello folks,

first rant (yeeah :D) with a big question of myself (made an account for this ^^):

How does DevRant finance itself?

is it through the merchandise?

Dont see any adds so I am astonished :)

Why does python work when you aren't expecting it to and give you errors when you need it to work?

!(!meta-rant)
Some question for ya creators

What was the first 10 rants here?

How many users are in devRant? (including ghost usernames)

Server costs how much in a day?

How did ya guys met together?

P.S. I remember you two had a building with the devrant logo in the top. Where is the location? (@trogus)

Anyone have experience using a keyboard layout other than QWERTY? I’ve heard the Dvorak layout is real fast to work with.

Got a new job opportunity, higher pay than mu current job.
The issue is that i am afraid that i will fail, that i am not that good of a programmer, and i will loose my current and new job also.

Should i go for it, how can i determine if i am good enough for a job change.

Btw i am a PHP programer.
Sometimes i think i am great, but sometimes i think i know nothing at all.

Ok devRantia. I have a pretty important question. I need project experience and I have zero ideas. Also i'm 14 and can't exactly be reputable enough to land a freelance job om upwork. I am trying to build a good portfolio so that universities or companies will take me a little more seriously when I apply. Any ideas on how to go about this or some projects for me to do?

(This conversation is going in WhatsApp)

So a friend of mine asks me if i can build an app for a restaurant to place orders etc.

Me: “Sure, can i have his/her phone number to get in touch with them?”

Friend: “uhmm.. i’d prefer that the communication goes via myself. So what do you want to ask to them?”

Me: “i think that it’ll be easier if i can discuss their wishes and the costs directly with them. Don’t you think?”

He did not answered my question yet.

My question is to you guys; is it wise to take a project from someone that i don’t even know..? Probably my friend is willing to earn some money by raising the price that i ask.
Would you take this project?
Tips-/advices please.

Thanks.

!rant

Random question.. at what point can one say that they "know" a programming language? 🤔

I'm currently volunteering as a student assistant at my school, and today I've gotten the same question 20x. What question do you ask: "Why doesn't ^ return the power of the 2 numbers?"

It turns out that last week they've had a Math class from a new teacher (no programming experience) who said that if you want the power of 2 numbers you have to use the ^ operator...

If you don't know how to program, please don't teach it!

!rant
I have question: how does changing your avatar work if you use reputation. For example: I want to add glasses that require 100++. Once I've clicked on those does my rep go down or can I get an unlimited amount of products under my amount of ++'s?

Why do *popular* devs prefer OSX over Ubuntu, Mint or other linux distribution? Don't they like to support open source? I just picked a MBA and have spent time with it but I still prefer Ubuntu.

Note - By popular, here I mean those devs who are noteworthy on Twitter, Github etc. I won't speak names obviously.

what to do when you feel down and are nowhere near a computer to write a few lines of soulcode? (soul food for devs)

Since I still can't grow a proper beard I find myself wondering... Am I really a developer?

A technology **every** dev should know is... ?

Should I study AI ? Is it fun ?

So what’s this command line app called that displays an ascii art of the OS logo and system specs?

I had a question:

If I do -- (downvote) on @dfox rant, will he ban me?

What's the longest line numbers that you guys have saw in a code?

Time to switch distro (I'm run debian it the moment ) any recommendations

!rant
Anyone here from Lebanon? Never seen a lebanese person here. I can't be the only one here come on :s

!rant

A colleague of mine has made the right and brave decision to quit. For her it's absolutely the right decision but I hate how the company was OK and did nothing to keep her. I'd like to give her something small when she leaves. I was thinking about a book. Does anyone have any suggestions that might be a nice going-away and good-luck present for a valued colleague?

Is there a book or something similar in size that they really cherish and wish they had had sooner?

Any macbook owners here faced similar display issue? My macbook air seems to have a minor display issue. See this brightness difference from the middle. Sometimes, brightness varies suddenly like when flickering. Should I take it to Apple store or whatever? Or just ignore this?

guys i did a minor fuck up..... delayed the timeline of the project..... client will call in 6 hours .... i'm covering the damage ...but in meantime ..... what should i say to him when he calls ..?
"Sorry for the confusion" ?
"Thanks for understanding" ?

Standing or sitting desk?

!rant

What's a program that doesn't exist, but you wish did?

Let's see how many of us can use programming skill outside in real world.

Pair socks from a pile efficiently?

wk48 best question:

My go to question for dev interviews is how do you find all prime numbers from 2 to x because there's so much room for optimisation.

Start with the basics, loop over every number and check if it's divisible by any number less than it, then record the prime numbers and check only those, then move to something like the sieve of eratosthenes then reduce the problem space and only iterate through 2 to sqrt(x)

this may sound like a strange question but you hire someone with dyslexia?

//Non StackOverflow Worthy Question

Just bought a new laptop and I am deciding between dual-boot and vm with windows, most of my dev is .Net Core or Java or web, but sometimes I require Visual Studio, so.

What do you think is a better option?

What's That dread & shameful feeling when you get praised for some shit you know is awful called..?

Question- what are y'alls opinions on VPN services? On one hand, I'm concerned about the reality that my ISP is 100% sniffing my traffic and also like being able to assume reasonable security on other networks, but I also don't at all trust companies who claim to make "The World's Most Advanced and Secure" anything (in the words of VYPR, which I currently use). I've tried using my own VPS, but I don't have the resources to ensure it's properly maintained. I'm specifically looking at VPN options, I have a completely different use case for those than TOR.

So people always complain about how people ask bad questions on StackOverflow, but it seems people on SO are also unable to properly read the question.

I literally stated in my question that I've tried using android's v7 SearchView and first thing someone answers is use the v7 SearchView, I mean c'mon, RTFQ

what should i do, any ideas?

i'm a student and have a very good payed job (19h/week). Im stressed and have an ill feeling at work, not beacsuse of others but because i really Dont like the job and dont know if im good at it.
this feeling and the job is affecting my studies. I could take a job, at my university, which is muss less payed but really fun.

Do you have any advise guys?

Why do I get push notification for comment even when I got the mentioned notificaton of comment on same post and same comment ?

Question: how many of you have told co-workers about devRant and wished you hadn't ???

Question;
I have heard about Apache Hadoop for a while but never bothered to learn anything about it.
What can it be used for? Can I use it for hosting thousands of websites powered by php/hhvm?
I am starting to have a need for a really HA and High Performance solution that is futureproof too. My current solution is doing great also when it comes to performance and HA, but it is always nice to try out new things...

So the question is, can Hadoop be used in a hostingsolution?

Question - my field is information security (or cyber security if you want to think of me as a time lord), but I wanted to know;
Front end and back Devs, how much time do you spend on security issues and/or implementing security measures?

Honest question:

I did a project and delivered it, but my boss did 4 commits after that. Without giving me any feedback.

They were small things: using a different library (just one line), and removing one debug line that caused a bug.

Should I ask him for feedback or just tell him "Hey I saw your commits, I'll make sure to use the new library and never let any debug line in"?

I'm curious, how many of you ranters out there studied Math at an advanced level to become proficient at programming? Is there a particular field of Mathematics that would improve my programming skill?

Context: I come across a lot of Math I don't understand/never encountered when researching topics such as encryption, hashing, geospatial data handling and randomness. Was wondering if I missed out on some key learning that would make these topics a lot less mysterious. Also, I overheard someone coming up with a mathematical formula to base an algorithm on. I don't think I've ever come up with algos this way.

You have a job for 7 days and you will get paid with 1 piece of gold per day. Problem is there's a block of gold made up of 7 pieces, and there is a knife that can cut it only twice. How would you solve this problem? Making sure the employee has the right amount of gold every day!

There are no tricks in the question like buying a new knife or whatever. There is a unique mathematical solution. Go!

So What's your sleep schedule? And how consistent are you?

#QUESTION:

Is there any reason why should I buy Samsung 960 Evo instead 850 Evo?

960 Evo has ~4 times faster sequential speeds but is 40$ more expensive then 850 Evo (I'm talking bout 250gb options)

I doubt that I would see any difference in normal use case/build times. Or am I wrong?

Would it be better idea using those 40$ on more ram for caching or even saving projects on ramdisk?

!Question

I see lots of rants here of bosses/clients screaming, imposing their authority, making people work during the night, weekends etc. Is it that common?

In my actual job, the few times my boss screamed to me, I was about "fuck this shit, I'll just do what he wants and go home at the right time. If they don't like it, just fire me. And laught silently when things goes wrong".

I've been afraid to get into the developer area and always be stressed out with too much work to do, people screaming and having to work on weekends.

lets say I have managed to hack over 100 PCs (not powerful , all in the same building)
what kind of things should I do to them ?
*mining bitcoin is out - those computers are really bad*

Interview question : How far can you walk into the wood?
#no cheating # no googling

What do you think people should know about privacy and security (that most don't seem to know)?

My app is randomly crashing after I launch it. It stays open for a minimum of around 5 minutes and after that it decided to make suicide. Dunno why.

Okay so my question isn't about coding or programming but I know at least a few of you holes here (said lovingly) are either gamers or programming games.

I have written up the text files for rather large game over the years and the designs have been incredible according to my peers (I think they're shit but... meh... my opinion doesn't matter that much as art is subjective, not objective).

Recently I have stopped having any new ideas. At all. Ever. It's like age has progressively halted my muse and imagination. I keep making new things just to throw them away and start over. I'm not depressed or down on my luck. Already tried that card and... nah, I'm good.

My question is... how do you guys keep doing it? Creating new things? What makes you tick and keep pushing even when you're out of sync like this?

Who would more likely get a job: (and why)
1. Person who knows many languages but next to none frameworks (JS, C#, Java, C++)
2. Person who knows only couple of languages but many frameworks(React, Angular, VueJS)

I think the one who knows more frameworks because with language only you can only automate stuff (or write frameworks yourself). I think that's why Java devs don't go to Android dev job

What was the path like to get to your current position?

Is it your end-goal position? If not what are your plans for the future?

Alright I have a question for android/ios app dev, as being a web dev I see one has to do so much for tech stack as there are tons of web languages. And to keep themselves upto date according to the latest tech stack they have to learn new every day.

What about app devs you don't have so many languages like web do so can I say a person spending more time in one lang can learn it way better than web devs who have to look for the latest tech stack and start from the scratch?

Just how many designers do we have on here?

What's the most unethical program that you have ever made?

Question!
So I read some complains about php can someone clarify me why people don't like it ? Also should (for example I but I mean in general new web developers) learn it or is php slowly dying and there are better languages that can replace php ?
*grabs a popcorn

If you had an ideal Github client for mobile, what features would you want it to have?

Question to @dfox
How hard would it be to make the
++ and -- to scroll along with us to the bottom of a long rant and then stop at the line for the next rant?

So... IT was fucking horrific. Just the sight of red and white makes my heart race. (It was a great movie though; if you're into horror I highly recommend watching it)

However, I'm afraid to go to sleep tonight so I'll probably just stay up all night coding and studying for my CSIII exam on Monday.

SERIOUS QUESTION: as developers, do you ever use base conversions or boolean algebra? I'm trying to figure out how what we're learning will actually apply to the real world.

Question for school:
When (if) you use Java what IDE or text editor do you like to use? Also what do you use for work (if you program in Java)?

Personally I like to use intellij but the school default is NetBeans (prob cause it's free).

Thx everyone

Anyone else remember answering basic questions when you were first learning? Everyone gets pissed now because when they ask a basic question, I have enough experience to realize I need way more background to answer definitively, and they aren't willing to provide it. I find myself asking why more often than not, and people just don't get it. How do you avoid it?

[question][laptop][macbook]
Hey guys!
What's your opinion about the 2012 Macbook Pro (13")?
I'm currently in midschool and I going to listen Computer Science next year in the local university. (I'm from Hungary.)
I want to buy a laptop (maybe a secondhand one), and a friend of mine suggested this model, but I never used a Mac or OSX, I'm a Windows/Linux&PC guy.

I need an idea for a thesis project! It's so hard to come up with a project and research question that can be answered by that project! Our teachers have a list of projects but I don't find anything interesting and those that are I can't come up with a question too.

Ok, so i got this new machine and whilst migrating I want to stay online with certain services. So atm there is x.web.nl and y.web.nl both have ssl and one runs on server x and the other on server y. Now is the question how the heck do i forward that ssl file??? I figured i have to do something with my nginx server block. Because that is terminating the cert. Can someone help me out??

Question of the day:

In Linux, arrange the do listing based on the read speeds (all in a simple hdd,)
/proc or procfs
/sys or sysfs
others or ext4

!rant
to;dr: will college w/existing work experience vs university impede my success in finding a good job in (DBA || software development || IT)?
Background: I'm a Canadian High School student. I've worked at my previous elementary school in their IT Dept for the past 5 yrs, doing everything from helping teachers connect laptops to projectors to working on transitioning to a new school database and maintaining it. I've also developed a food ordering system for my current high school.
My dilemma: I'm not doing too well in math because I don't do well in 'academic' subjects that aren't taught in applied ways, and I know that's basically all university is.
My question: see above.
Thanks in advance.

A question to game devs : which design/architecture patterns do you use ?

Everytime I try to take a look at game development, I feel like there is a lack of guidelines, mostly about architecture.

It's something strange to me as a web dev, as we use much of these patterns on a daily basis. Of course I think about the near omnipresence of MVC and its variants, but not just that. Most of frameworks we do use are essentially focused on architecture, and we litterally have access to unlimited tutorials and resources about how to structure code depending on projects types ans needs.

Let's say I want to code a 2D RPG. This has been done millions of time across the world now. So I assume there should be guidelines and patterns about how to structure your code basis and how to achieve practical use-cases (like the best way to manage hero experience for example, or how to code a turn-based battle system). However I feel these are much harder to find and identify than the equivalent guidelines in the web dev world.

And the old-school RPG case is just an example. I feel the same about puzzle games or 3D games... Sure there are some frameworks and tools but they seems to focus more on physics engine and graphic features than code architecture. There are many tutorials too, but they are actually reinforcing my feeling : like if every game developer (at least every game company) has his on guidelines and methods and doesn't share much.

So... Am I wrong ? Hope to.

What are the tools and patterns you can reuse on many projects ? Where can I find proper game architectures guidelines that reached consensus ?

Question:

Should I make my own JS library/framework to make my work go faster, I would put the most used code in this library

Is it worth learning JavaEE or should I just hack something together and hope it doesn't explode?

Question: can I describe OOP as "not in a loop, doesn't use interrupts" ?

I don't know much outside of OOP so describing it is like describing life, hard.

Sublime Text owners, what persuaded you to buy it? The nagware notice is really starting to grind on me but I might just switch back to Atom :P any benefits beyond no nagging to purchasing?

Might buy either ST or PhpStorm since I like them both

Okay so if a company decides to use md5 for hashing passwords after a million users already registered how the hell will they transition to any other way of storing passwords. As they don't have plaintext to convert them into the new hashing function.

Question: which is better approach?

1. Use push notifications to tell react website that new data is available

OR

2. Use SignalR (similar to socket.io) and push data in real time?

The down side of SignalR is server needs to map connections --> use more memory while push notifications doesn't require that

Hi all my webdev friends! Question for you, tried google, got propaganda.

Why do front end devs use frameworks like angular or react? I was looking into it, and it looks like html/JavaScript can handle it all. Wouldn't removing them save load time and data overhead? Does it really boost productivity that much?

As a backend dev, it is completely possible I missed something haha.

Quick javascript question:

let a = .............
Make a == a always return false.

What would a be? One solution is to let a = NaN. Anything fancier? :>

What language should one learn in 2017 with a main purpose to create mobile apps?

Newbie here, currently doing Udacity nano degree for full stack (mainly for Python as the other stuff I am confident with). Love this app, funny as f.

I'm curious why others decided to become Devs? I'm doing this because I have an idea for a webapp that will make me millions ;)

Do all posts on here have to be rants?
I'll rant about it if the answer is yes.
Is there a specific name for a spreadsheet/document that you give to someone (IE, school) who is financing the project you are working on, that explains in detail why all of those parts are needed? My school is requiring me to justify all of the parts they need to purchase for a robot I am building for a national competition (through the school).
I've never written a justification list/whatever it's called, and I'd imagine if I'd know the name, Google could help me with the rest. Unfortunately, Google couldn't help me figure out exactly what that type of document would be called.

So, im getting tired of the clutter on my home computer. Thinking about formatting my SSD and putting a fresh OS install, however, I was having trouble deciding between re-doing Windows 10 or going to linux OS. Thing is, I play vidya games on this computer too, but I want it to mainly be a workstation. What do?

Agree or disagree?

I disagree.... When debugging, I'd like to breakpoint here (inside the DAO class) and see the results.

Is VIM really that bad? Or why does everybody want to know how to quit it?

Can people help me please,
Which one is better Android development (Android studio) or IOS development (Xcode)

I learned a bit of both(still a beginner) and here is what i think so far
Pros:
-Android is more wide spread and is more flexible also i have an Android device (testing)
-IOS development is really fun and intuitive and more money is paid to developers because not everyone has a mac in my country.

Con:
-Android studio is messy and java is really dull imo
-IOS requires a developer account which is really expensive in my country.

Any help is much appreciated even if it is a personal opinion

!rant => question?

I'm hired as a freelancer for a start-up that wants to create a social-network-like platform. I've always been a "basic" PHP and javascript developer like using AngularJS, MySQL and my own kinda like PHP MVC framework etc.. But I'm worried that 'this' will come short when the platform expands on the user-base and stuff. That MySQL won't be able to keep up with the expectations and the amountof data, that AngularJS will not be enough for the Frontend,.. I've taken a look at ReactJS, RethinkDB, NodeJS and such, but this is not really within my "comfort zone" and I'm not willing to invest time in something new if it's not able to handle the platform (I don't know if it will..) and I'm afraid that I'll have to start from scratch if it all fails.. (and this is something I can't afford)

So.. What are you guys's opinions? We're not looking at millions of users, but it will have feeds, comments, connections, messages, post scopes,.. Etc. RethinkDB looks promising with the 'watchers' to get live data instantly, but it's a whole new way of query'ing and such.. It just feels like I'm wasting my time because I'm afraid that I'll reach a point in development where I'll have a situation for example like "damn.. This is impossible with angular or php.." [I've shouldn't have agreed to this project..] :D

Here's a question, what kind of music does everyone listen to while coding? Personally it has to be a bit of Dylan or Red Hot Chilli Peppers

I'm going to ask a silly question... When I was introduced to databases, I was shown using Access. The interface Access used seemed to me to be fairly intuitive.

When I was introduced to MySQL, I guessed there would be some tool or other that would allow a similar design and manipulation of a database using a GUI.

MySQL Workbench didn't seem to be great for the task.

What is the 'proper' method used by actual DB devs?

Question:
How did you discover devRant?

For me I was looking for an Android sql server to install from the play store when I found it..

What is the best ide you guys use?

I'm in a react/vue/angular/polymer-debate. Lets continue this here, but only with the worst arguments you heard about these 4.

I start:
React: "I dont like it, facebook might have a backdoor in the code so they can see what we're developing"
Angular: "We use Google Cloud, angular is developed by google too. There is a synergy between the two"

(If you really need this to be a question, then it's "what are the worst arguments you heard about javascript-frameworks?")

What is something people keep saying to you about being a dev that really annoys you?

Mine is that all forms of pixel art must be for Minecraft (Really really really irritating!)

How many users are on devrant? Just wondering

@dfox @trogus is there any way to change your email address that is used by devRant?

If you write a solution to something at work, then the company most likely holds ownership with whatever license they have.

However if you rewrite that solution in your spare time, into a package that solves the same problem but different then replace (with permission to) the original implementation with the new one..

Can said company then claim ownership on your package?

Quick question about resumes. Is it ok to talk about personal projects directly on them? I was always told to wait until the interview, but 57 resumes sent later, no interview...

I am extremely curious about this. What are your nationalities? I am Portuguese 😄 #tuga_power

A question for Web developers:
I'm planing to start working on a web part of my project. Important part is that it's supposed to be working with MongoDB. The idea is to build a small digital library, so the main functionalities should be user registering, his login, querying database for books, showing list of results and viewing pdf files up to 200MB size.

Since I have almost no experience with web technologies, I would like to hear your advices and opinions on the technologies/languages I should use and learn. Should I go with JavaScript? Php? Something third?

Please note that this is a school project on which I'm working after my job, and not something to be deployed to customers.

Thank you

I want to make it a serious 4 year plan to work my way into a company that supports open source free software development.

And not just that, but I want to work from a Linux machine. Ditching windows forever once and for all.

So, question, does anyone here have any experience in this field? Any tips/tricks to move my way over?

(Question/0.5Rant)

So I am working on a mixed API (aka reachable from anywhere, but also only accessible by specific allowed devices) and I am struggling with the security of it, its not managing anything hardcore (this API is "is the coffe ready?" kind of level) or I would have just enforced per device registration for example already, but the app that goes with that API is deployed remotely and has to be "ready to go!!!" out of the box, so I can't add any registration, verifications of devices etc.

The main thing I am afraid of is, that one of those agent retards will get his spaghetti phone blasted from the inside, so all the https calls will be read out by some random attacker, which then will be able to "abuse" the API via read out api-key, is there any way for me to have a rescue plan if one of those retards does get hacked and the system then get spammed or something, like if I log all devices that use the API I could just deny access from that device (until resolved) and issue a new app update via new api key.

What's the best way of handling this and is my idea really the only way to handle this? this shitfest is really causing shit ton of ideas in my head, which then I deny literally 20 seconds later, because there's a way to bypass it or once you have the old api key to get a new one by just monitoring it etc.

!rant

When making an ecommerce site, what platform do you guys use? WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, ....

Or do you just start from scratch with a payment gateway such as stripe or icepay

Supp guys? Quick question: has anyone ever had a dev / it job in which he wasn't stuck in a office, but he was working outdoor / supporting scientist ecc... like let's say on a archeology site, or just anything out of the ordinary developer comfort zone...just curious

How do you guys keep your test environments in sync?

What are differences between JavaScript and TypeScript concretely ?

!question
My friend's friend requested my service to make an eCommerce website for her side business.

Should I keep all the domain, hosting, and SSL under my name and charge them after putting some margin to earn some cash? Or cut the hassle and just let them purchase it themselves?

Python (django) OR Ruby (rails) to learn first?

!rant

Should I buy a mechanical keyboard? I've tried some basic Dell and so far they feel "sluggish", I can type faster on my laptop keyboard because I feel like "gliding between keys as I stroke"

Maybe I should try better ones?

i was wondering Is it true when people do drugs they code alot better?
All where I see this concept.

Anyone else thinking that a multiple monitor environment can be rather distracting than productive?

I want to get into windows, mac etc. development. So what program is good for making a program like for example paint or any simple program for windows

I'm not sure if devRant could send stickers to Iran, can?

Question for you guys.

I have an Android app in which you can track when and how much you have worked, etc., especially aimed at (food) delivery drivers. I know those kind of apps already exist, it's a hobby project :). But I have no idea what to call it.
Any suggestions?

Honest question:

For an open temp role, we are looking for someone that knows and used Angular 1.5 and ECMAScript 6.. yet everyone we have interviewed so far only knows up to Angular 1 and doesn't even know a new version of JavaScript came out, or have never used it before.

Are we really asking too much for someone interested in a temp role or are we just getting unqualified candidates?

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On my University exam of compiler design I got this question
Write difference between pascal and C programming language.

[long confession/question]
So I was asked by a client to make an app similar to prisma(not exactly that but let's say a caricature app) and I knew I have to research a lot.

Now I have been loyal to PHP for over 5 years so I first tried with GD and imagick but the results were not very good, so I thought let's try opencv. I didn’t wanna make any compromises so I didn't go the bridging way, I worked on native python even though I am a newbie in it. I was fairly impressed with the cartoonizing results but others weren't. Soon I got to know that this would take much more than simple filter combinations or matrix manipulations.
I read about prisma and got to know it uses deep neural networks for the same.
Now, in the five years I have learnt almost all the things a run-of-the-mill "Full stack Web Developer" should know.
I have a fair knowledge of PHP, many of its frameworks, many js frameworks(obviously jquery), I have a very good understanding of CSS and its models, I have worked on some cool algos and found solutions to many problems but I haven't gotten to stage where I can implement neural networks/machine learning in my projects.
It just scares me.
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A little back story: I have been the CTO of a small scale company for about 1.5 years now.
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So all this got me to asking myself should I just step down from the post to a position where I can learn more skills. Managing takes a lot more time where I can't learn a lot. Sure I learnt some other important things but not as much tech knowledge as I would have in a more basic position.

I know not many of you must have read this far, but if you did what do you think I should do? Really depressed at the moment.

Does someone still use ruby on rails??